She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERNinety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don’t cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears – you know, it’s a horrible thing.
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I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
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